Top 50 Mobile Startup Investors in Africa (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Golden Palm Investments
VC Fund
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9 | Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care | $30k–$15M |
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LoftyInc Capital Management
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Nigeria, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $100k–$15M |
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $50k–$10M |
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Launch Africa
VC Fund
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6 | Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $200k–$3M |
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Social Capital
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, SaaS | $1M–$35M |
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Microtraction
VC Fund
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5 | Nigeria, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $25k–$1.2M |
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4Di Capital
VC Fund
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5 | South Africa, United States, Uganda | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Financial Services | $431k–$6.4M |
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | South Africa, Nigeria, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $250k–$20M |
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Lynett Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Wireless, Mobile | $120k–$10M |
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4DX Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Egypt, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services | $40k–$20M |
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Ventures Platform
VC Fund
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4 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $50k–$4.4M |
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Picus Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $500k–$33M |
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Kenya, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $235k–$50M |
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Quona Capital
VC Fund
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3 | India, Brazil, Indonesia | Series A, Series B, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.1M–$45M |
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IDF Capital SA
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa | Seed | Automotive, Mobile Apps | |
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Kalon Venture Partners
VC Fund
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3 | South Africa, Luxembourg, United States | Seed, Series A | Apps, Mobile Apps, Software | $539k–$3M |
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TLcom Capital Partners
VC Fund
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3 | Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $3.5M–$27M |
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Western Technology Investment
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Canada, Nigeria | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1M–$52M |
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FMO
VC Fund
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3 | India, The Netherlands, Kenya | Debt Financing, Series B | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $1.7M–$120M |
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Sandeep Nailwal
Angel
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3 | United States, India, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $100k–$18M |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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3 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology | $25k–$8M |
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ODBA
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Rwanda, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges | $200k–$2M |
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AngelHub Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Education | $300k–$1.7M |
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Goodwell Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa | Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.5M–$14M |
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Michael Seibel
Angel
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $120k–$20M |
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Cadenza Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech | $1M–$16M |
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TTV Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Ireland | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $3M–$35M |
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Tiger Global Management
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $5M–$298M |
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HAVAÍC
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, United States, Kenya | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Financial Services, Software | $54k–$4M |
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Pantera Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.5M–$50M |
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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt | Seed, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $100k–$4.5M |
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Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $500k–$7.5M |
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Riot Games
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, China | Seed, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps | $2M–$4.7M |
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MFS Africa
VC Fund
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2 | France, Uganda, Germany | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Insurance, Mobile | |
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Bose Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Denmark, South Africa | Series B, Series A | Software, Wearables, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$80M |
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Delphi Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Liberia | Series C, Series B, Series D | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device | $6.2M–$79M |
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Justin Mateen
Angel
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2 | United States, Mexico, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $400k–$14M |
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Ground Squirrel Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Zambia, Madagascar | Seed, Series A | Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy | $1.8M–$5M |
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The MasterCard Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | South Africa, Kenya, Ghana | Grant, Pre-Seed | Education, Information Technology, E-Learning | $30k–$250k |
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Raine Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, Sweden | Series A, Series B, Seed | Mobile, Gaming, Internet | $2M–$85M |
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Paradigm
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech | $1.7M–$1B |
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Tencent
VC Fund
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2 | China, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce | $3.5M–$385M |
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HoaQ
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$2M |
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Yield Guild Games
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Vietnam, Australia | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency | $1.8M–$20M |
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Shima Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming | $1M–$7.7M |
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Virgin Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $4.7M–$500M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1M–$54M |
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AU21 Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.2M–$14M |
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Acumen
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, Kenya | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture | $300k–$13M |
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Good Soil VC
VC Fund
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2 | Ghana, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Human Resources, Financial Services | $35k–$940k |
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Golden Palm Investments is an investment holding and advisory company.
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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
- Jetstream Africa — Jetstream is a supply chain platform that powers freight forwarding and global exports for African suppliers. With tracking and consolidated (LCL) shipping Jetstream levels the playing field for access to international trade for African SMEs with the click of a button.
LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M; Series A $250k–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
- EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terraa — Terraa is a B2B distribution platform in Moroccan.
- OmniBiz — Omnibiz is a digital platform for small businesses willing to attract new customers.
- Revivo — Revivo is an online marketplace for electronics spare parts, tools & accessories.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $200k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
- Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.
At Social Capital, we make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 364
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Series A $3.5M–$15M; Series B $8M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
- Mitra Chem — Mitra Chem is innovating and commercializing iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification for electric vehicles, energy storage solutions and beyond.
- Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
We invest in Africa's most remarkable teams with technical founders at the earliest stage of their venture
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $25k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
- Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
4Di Capital is a Cape Town-based venture capital fund management firm focused on early-stage technology investments in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $431k–$1.7M; Series A $3.4M–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
- Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sava — Sava is a multi-management platform that provides an unlimited number of virtual cards as well as automated accounting reconciliation.
- Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
- Bettr — Bettr is a digital banking app for creator. Download the app to get your zero monthly fee digital bank account and virtual card. Join our community of creators, gamers, influencers, freelancers, tiktokkers, streamers, YouTubers and digital gig workers.
Lynett Capital is an early stage investment firm dedicated to the empowering technology companies.
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- Industry: FinTech, Wireless, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- OpenYield — OpenYield is the modern bond exchange for retail. Equity-like liquidity for corporates and treasures.
- Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
- ABL Space Systems — ABL Space Systems is a company based in El Segundo, California, focused on launch vehicle and launch systems technology development.
4DX Ventures is a Pan-Africa Focused Venture Capital Firm. Our mission is to connect people, ideas, and capital to create a vibrant African community.
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- Industry: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Egypt, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $431k–$13M; Pre-Seed $40k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tactyc — Tactyc is an easy-to-use portfolio construction, forecasting and management software for venture funds.
- Zoie Health — Zoie is a digital health firm for women that provides family planning, fertility, and maternity care services.
- Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $325k–$4.4M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $46M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
- Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
- Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 274
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.4M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
- Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
- Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.
MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7M; Pre-Seed $235k–$4M; Series A $3.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
- Exponential Exchange — Exponential Exchange is designing contemporary commodities and brokered financial products.
- Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $6.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
IDF Capital is an established financier, that invests in high growth SMEs and entrepreneurial businesses. Specialist Entrepreneurial Financing Institution
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- Industry: Automotive, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Carscan — cARscan is an Augmented Reality app with an embedded visual recognition AI to track the visual condition of every motor vehicle during its life-stage.
A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.
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- Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $539k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — GoMetro designs deploy and operate flexible mobility platforms. Their proprietary technology stack empowers city leaders, transport managers, corporates, retail centres, property developers, airports and downtown to introduce bold new mobility strategies. Their connected transport digital platform equips transport planners to respond to thechallenges of increased congestion, aged infrastructure, disruptive mobility players, self-driving vehicles and a lack of quality public transport services.
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in thesesectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$13M; Series B $10M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sabipay — Pastel is a leader in Artificial Intelligence. We build products targeted at individuals (SwiftMoney) and enterprises (Sigma) in emerging markets
- Talstack — Talstack is an all-in-one platform for employee growth and development
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Since 1980, WTI has helped more than 1,300 companies across every innovation sector finance their growth while minimizing dilution.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.6M; Series A $1.3M–$20M; Series B $8M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
- Helium Health — Helium Health empowers healthcare providers in Africa with digital tools, financing solutions, and data partnerships. Learn more about our innovative solutions.
- Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.
FMO is a financial investment firm that specializes in financing businesses and projects FMO invests across the agribusiness value chain to enhance food security, support sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
- Geography: India, The Netherlands, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Series B $4.5M–$30M; Debt Financing $1.7M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
- AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
- Northern Arc — Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that provides access to debt for under-served investors and businesses. Northern Arc Capita connects originators so that they may deepen their presence and provide access to financial services to millions of under-served households. Northern Arc Capital formerly Known as IFMR Capital. It wasfounded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $900k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $4.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
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Browse database — It's Free!Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
We invest in people and stories, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Financial Exchanges
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Nigeria, Rwanda, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $200k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- GetFundedAfrica — GetFundedAfrica's mission is to help Africa’s most promising startups find funding, grow & solve society’s greatest challenges. We do this through a media portal - GetFundedAfrica News; a learning portal - REMSANA; and an investment arm - GFA Ventures
Operating out of Stellenbosch in South Africa and backed by two family offices Angelhub Ventures's team is passionate about early stage investments in (South) Africa. Being entrepreneurial ourselves, we thoroughly understand the challenges and changes our founders face – which is why we back them in any way we can. Most importantly, we believein building great businesses and we are in it for the long haul.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Series A $300k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
- Godochurch — GoDoChurch is a cloud-based church administration software which is designed to assist Christian churches and ministries with managing members, Sunday services, events, communications, and more. The system is made up of a base package, covering messaging, news, ministries, lists, church roles, services, events, and growth paths, with additionalmodules for managing follow-ups, groups, and Kids church.
- Ikeja Wireless — Welcome to your Ikeja. We are a home-grown tech company that builds services enabling affordable internet access to Ekasi. We may have coverage in your area!
Goodwell Investments is a pioneering investment firm focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$7.5M; Series B $2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- MFS Africa — MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
- SOUK Farms — SOUK Farms is a fresh horticulture supply grower and exporter that pioneers innovation to improve agricultural sustainability and stimulate economic and social development.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Michael Seibel is the Managing Director and Group Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Socialcam as a CEO. Michael Seibel attended Yale University.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5.3M; Series A $5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
- Artifact — Artifact helps capture important memories with ease by creating personal podcasts with the people of customers choice.
- Emerge Career — All-in-one workforce development training programs
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.3M; Series A $3.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dapi — Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.
- Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
- Moon Mortgage — Crypto backed mortgage provider
TTV Capital is a venture capital firm that funds and supports the businesses that shape the financial future of the world.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $3M–$7.5M; Series A $3.2M–$20M; Series B $5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Payabli — Payment infrastructure for your software platform. Accept payments from customers and make payouts to vendors and contractors with our API's.
- Foro — We help your business connect, compare, and choose between top business lenders. Get started to see the best loan options for your business.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally.Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategyhas a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 756
- Round size: Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $15M–$100M; Series C $20M–$298M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $13B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
- Battery Smart — Battery Smart provides advanced Li-ion batteries to e-rickshaws. Battery Smart develops a retrofittable 48V Li-ion twin battery system that is compatible with all major electric rickshaw (e3w) models.
- Ariga Technologies — Ariga provides software engineering teams with the quickest and safest way to new database schema management techniques.
HAVAÍC is an investment and advisory firm that specialises in early-stage, high-growth African businesses with proven concepts and global prospects, offering investment opportunities to sophisticated investors and international venture capital companies with an interest in Africa. As a complementary offering, HAVAÍC provides corporate advisory andcapital raising services to emerging, internationally scalable businesses.
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- Industry: Health Care, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $54k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 73% lead, 27% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- FinAccess — FinAccess is a banking software for microfinance organisations.
- Right Now Response — Your go-to for expert breakdown assistance. Our dedicated team ensures you're back on the road swiftly and safely. Contact us for reliable support today!
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 185
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.3M; Series A $5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- Maverick Protocol — Trade. Earn. Any Asset. Stop paying for price discovery. Enjoy higher capital efficiency.
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Browse database — It's Free!Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cartona — Cartona is a B2b marketplace directly connects retailers with suppliers
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Accion Venture Lab is an investment initiative that provides startups with seed capital and support.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.5M–$7.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
- Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
- Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.
Riot Games is the most player-focused game developer and publisher in the world. We published League of Legends in 2009, and have since released Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Longjiang Network — Longjiang Network is an AR mobile game developer, dedicated to the development and IP operation of AR games.
- Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.
- The Believer Company — Join the journey We are building a world-class team to serve players for years to come. If you believe in games, we believe in you.
MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
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- Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Uganda, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
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- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- maviance — Maviance is a German-based consulting (business and IT) and software development company that develops industry-specific for web and mobile applications for businesses and governments. It creates sustainable and customized solutions to meet the requirements of customers by combining its industry experience with solution-oriented skills of businessre-design, concept, project management, programming, and testing.Our commitment to excellence and sustainability is evident in suite of innovative and scalable smart mobile enterprise applications in industries like Microfinance, Metering, Insurance and Sales Automation. Each of our applications consists of a web-based back office server, mobile clients and APIs for SMS, mobile billing, mobile payment and integration into existing systems. Maviance serves clients in the financial services, telecommunications and public sectors, increasing productivity, reducing costs and improving their management capabilities. Founded in 2008, maviance GmbH is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
Bose Ventures is looking for startups that are pushing the envelope of AR to help build some of these new experiences. They are investing in startups that are developing apps, services, and technology that leverage and extend the Bose AR platform. If you are one of these innovative startups
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- Industry: Software, Wearables, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, Denmark, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Series A $1.5M–$8.3M; Series B $6M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2018
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- Pison — Pison is a human performance company optimizing cognitive and physiological capability through gesture control. It's a full-stack solution combine hardware, software, machine learning, and UX for AR industries and drones. Investors and partners include Special Forces, Air Force, Harris, First Round DRF, MIT, Draper, and NASA.
- Vesper — Vesper is an electrical and electronic manufacturing company that specializes in microphones, piezoelectric, and audio. The company is driven by a mission is to deliver voice-powered products to every market, around the world. Vesper was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Medrhythms — Pioneering Next-Generation Digital Therapeutics to Improve Walking
Delphi Ventures leverages years of experience, passion, & expertise to advance new technologies and build market leading biotechnology companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Stage:Series C, Series B, Series D
- Geography: United States, Canada, Liberia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Series B $6.2M–$48M; Series C $11M–$79M; Series D $11M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2008
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- Anoma — An intent-centric architecture for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, information flow control, & multi-chain atomic settlement
- Skylock — Skylock is a Canadian security startup backed by industry-leading investors. We are dedicated to ensuring that every Web3 project can be secure and free from threats.
- FastLane — FastLane is an easy to integrate protocol that rewards participating validators for protecting the health of the Polygon blockchain.
Justin Mateen is the Founder of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021. In 2021, Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on thetop 100 list of US Seed Investors. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top 10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Mexico, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $841k–$7M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1M; Series A $4.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
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- Rise — We make it easy for you to find, hire, pay, and manage contractors internationally while ensuring full compliance. Pay your team in fiat or crypto.
- Slash — Tens of thousands of online businesses use Slash to track their profits, earn cash back, and get faster payouts from platforms like GOAT and Amazon. No LLC required, no account fees, no minimum balance, and no credit checks.
- Somethings — Somethings is a platform for wellness tailored to young people that links youngsters with qualified mentors.
Seed round investment in frontier markets and clean energy
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Zambia, Madagascar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Twende — Twende connect people traveling in the same direction - drivers offer the empty seats in their car to other travelers going the same way.
- 4G Capital — Financial Services, Small Business Loans, Unsecured Loans, Microfinance, Credit Solutions, Working Capital, Flexible Repayment Options, Quick Loan Disbursements, Collateral-free Loans. banking 4G Capital. Kuza. Kawi, Upia, NXTGEN, africa bank. kenya bank. uganda bank. Green Investment, Sustainable returns. funding. impact
The Mastercard Foundation seeks a world where everyone has the opportunity to learn and prosper. Our focus is helping young people in Africa access opportunity by advancing education and financial inclusion.
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- Industry: Education, Information Technology, E-Learning
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: South Africa, Kenya, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Grant $30k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2M in 2018
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- UKC — The Government of Rwanda through the District and Sector gave my family a household cow. My dad was asked to establish a kraal and feeding garden to cultivate pasture. He did it. The Fresian cow given for free, gave us milk and dung, making us get milk for home use and surplus for sale.However, we were hit by the summertime and the pasture wasdepleted due to small plot cultivation we struggled to produce food crops and cow fodder. Our lovely cow started starving, prompting us to rise as early as 4 am and fetch thinny dry shrubs and grass along roadsides and river banks.Our milk production fell from 12 liters a day to 3 liters. The family got stressed with the unstoppable cow mows, rendering the neighborhood complaints about our darling cow noise nuisance due to undernutrition.“Daddy, I will find a way, I am in a country of solutions, not setbacks and regrets. Internet surfing led me to a new technology called Hydroponics Fodder”. Liaising with the external expert made the technology knock at our door, in Rwanda". The UKC member and vision bearer said.
- AkooBooks Audio — AkooBooks Audio is a platform and experience provider focused on transforming mobile phones and devices into 'accessible libraries' of Black/African audiobooks in English and African languages, that reach new audiences.
- Founders Factory Africa — Founders Factory Africa is to help early stage companies rapidly become viable and sustainable businesses.
Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies andclients.
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- Industry: Mobile, Gaming, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Series A $4M–$16M; Series B $13M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2017
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- Material Bank — Material Bank International
- Rock The Bells — Rock The Bells is an online store for hip-hop culture merchandise.
- East Asian Super League — EASL creates a premier basketball league while elevating the sport in Asia as the region’s first professional intra-club basketball league. EASL is the premier regional championship competition for club basketball in East Asia.
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Browse database — It's Free!Paradigm is an investment firm focused on supporting the great crypto/Web3 companies and protocols of tomorrow. Our approach is flexible, long term, multi-stage, and global. We often get involved at the earliest stages of formation and support our portfolio with additional capital over time.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$16M; Series A $6.7M–$100M; Series B $10M–$1B
- Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
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- EDX Markets — Edx description website
- Friend.Tech — Friend.tech is a decentralized social media app that allows users to tokenize their friends.
- Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 432
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$120M; Series B $15M–$200M; Series C $36M–$385M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
- Enflame — Suiyuan Technology is a provider of neural network solutions for artificial intelligence. Its products are deep learning high-end chips developed for cloud data centers, and are positioned on artificial intelligence training platforms. The chip will adopt a unique and innovative architecture independently developed, featuring high computing power,high energy efficiency ratio, programmable, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is designed and optimized for cloud AI training.
- Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Togo
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$2M; Angel $100k–$130k; Pre-Seed $115k–$780k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.
- Kunda Kids — Kunda Kids is helping kids around the world fall in love with reading through our storybooks and activity books. Browse our range of storybooks for kids. Perfect for kids ages 3 to 8 years
- ChekkitApp — Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.
Explore the best crypto games, meet people who love the same games you do. Play for free, go on adventures, and win rewards with your crew!
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- Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Vietnam, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.3M; Initial Coin Offering $3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
- Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 194
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
- jiritsu.network — Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.
- Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.
Learn about the Virgin Group, the home of Virgin, supporting the Branson family and growing of the brand by developing and nurturing valuable Virgin businesses.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Series A $4.7M–$500M; Series B $10M–$92M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sesame — Ranked America's #1 Telehealth Company - 2022. Book doctor appointments and specialists today at discount prices. Labs, prescriptions, and more available now with top-reviewed doctors near you. Feel better paying less for better care.
- Lightyear — Take control of your investing with over 3000 stocks and ETFs to choose from, multi-currency accounts, advanced analysis and more. Capital at risk.
- Virgin Voyages — Ahoy Sailor! Welcome to Virgin Voyages: our adult only cruise ships redefine luxury cruise vacations to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Europe, and beyond.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 430
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
- SustainCERT — SustainCERT is the leading global carbon emissions accounting and verification platform for carbon markets and corporate value chains.
- Prolific — Launch your study to tens of thousands of trusted participants in minutes. Recruit niche or representative samples on-demand. Prolific builds the most powerful and flexible tools for online research. Sign up for free.
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 124
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.8M; Initial Coin Offering $1.2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
- Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.
Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Agriculture
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.3M; Series A $1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- GramVaani — Gram Vaani [meaning 'voice of the village'] is a social tech company based at IIT-Delhi. Their objective is to reverse the flow of information, that is, to make it bottom-up instead of top-down, by helping connect communities with companies/governments/dev agencies. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools,Gram Vaani has been able to impact communities- more than 2 million users in over 15 Indian States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia and South Africa.
- Haqdarshak — Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out ofcommon interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
- ReCircle — They are a Waste Management service that provides a free doorstep pick-up service for offices, institutions, households and schools to dispose their recyclable waste (Raddi). They further supply this recycled waste to authorized recycling centres, ensuring safety and sustainability.
GOODsoil VC is an early stage venture capital firm. We partner with founders seeking to invent new market categories and transform large, existing industries.They aim to take risks on innovative and ambitious people and products; providing risk capital for new and early-stage start-up companies, in return for an equity share.
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- Industry: FinTech, Human Resources, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ghana, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $35k–$940k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeepay — Zeepay Ghana Limited is a wholly Ghanaian owned Mobile FinancialServices company focusing on providing integrated mobile payments services with mobile wallets targeting the unbanked and banked population with the objective of bringing the unbanked into the financial stream and easing payments and collections for the banked population.Zeepayfacilitates the processing of multiple mobile phone payment transactions, and operates as a aggregator that brings transaction of all players together on one single platform. The company’s core application runs on open source technology, and is designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber based transactions.
- BezoMoney — Bezomoney is a social saving platform for low-income earners that helps them save effectively, access bulk capital through group savings and boost their creditworthiness. The platform features a personal wallet with a lock feature allowing users to save over a period of time. It features a machine learning model allowing users to accumulate pointsbased on the consistency of their savings which translates into benefits on the platform such as discounts on purchase, acquisition of property and investment options. There is also a group wallet which allows users to participate in rotational group savings with people inside their network.
- Zuberi Technologies Limited — Zuberi Pay is an on-demand mobile employee benefits app in Africa. As an interest free mobile alternative to digital loans for employees, salaried workers have the opportunity to access their salary on a daily basis rather than wait for the month end. The platform is available to African companies via partnerships who value their employees and wantto increase financial wellbeing within the workplace.
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